PRATT SILS E-PUBLISHING COURSE AT UCL 2008 16th to 27th June

WELCOME!

THE PROGRAMME:

This programme has been based on the successful programme from last year but we have provided a looser schedule to enable more discussion and more networking. The aim is to provide students with an introduction to e-publishing. The emphasis will be on scholarly communication because that is where the action is. The school/course will be international in scope but will draw upon the local resources. Fortunately London is a world centre of publishing and in particular e-publishing and in some areas there are centres of excellence and world leaders. All speakers and those giving presentations during visits have been encouraged to describe the publishing approach to the types of publication and communication and the products and services being described and analysed. Why is this publication being created and provided for its audience in the way that it is?

The programme is divided three ways. There are morning teaching sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday or Week One and Monday and Wednesday of Week Two. There are visits on the afternoons where there are morning teaching sessions plus full day visits to Oxford on the Friday of Week One and to Cambridge on Tuesday of Week Two. The course ends with a high-level conference, two which all students are invited as an integral part of the course, on the Thursday and the Friday of Week Two. For the detailed programme see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/. Finally of course there will be social occasions. See below.

The teaching will be based on themes. The intention is that the teaching sessions and the visits will together cover to a certain level of depth those themes suggested by the overall title of the summer school. Characteristically in the teaching sessions there will be a mix of talks and question/answer and discussion sessions. Some of the visits will be a little lacking in time for discussion but that will not be entirely under our control. We are very fortunate to get access to some of the places where we are going. There will be follow up back at UCL. The themes will include;
E-JOURNALS
E-BOOKS
E-LEARNING
OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
DIGITAL REPOSITORIES
LIBRARIANS AS E-PUBLISHERS
THE COST OF E-PUBLISHING AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ASSOCIATIONS
THE ARCHIVING AND PRESERVATION OF E-CONTENT
THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF DATABASE PUBLISHING
E-AGGREGATORS
THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF E-DATABASES.


WEEK ONE:

Monday 16 June

Morning: Induction, Orientation and Introduction to the usage of e-publications

09.00 Henry Morley room HM4} (for location see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/maps/maps_2007.pdf).

PLEASE BE SURE TO ARRIVE PROMPTLY!

The first half of the morning will be mostly covered by an introduction to the school and to the course by Anthony Watkinson and Andy Dawson, a project introduction by Dr. Tula Giannini and orientation and registration procedures. For information about the school see www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies and www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk.

09.00 - 09.45 Coffee, welcome and introduction to the summer school (Andy Dawson, Anthony Watkinson), explanation of student work plans (Tula Giannini)
09.45 - 10.30 Orientation and admission procedures
10.30 - 11.00 Refreshments
11.00 - 12.30 Presentation by Professor David Nicholas, who directs the Department of Information Studies, the Centre for Publishing and the CIBER research group on understanding the usage of e-resources. For information about the research of the group see www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/research.html and www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/publications.html.

Afternoon Visit
14.30 leave from HM4 for British Library
15.00 to 17.00 The British Library (close to UCL) is probably the most important national library in the world. There will be a tour of the library and some presentations including one on their partnership in digitisation with Microsoft and the development of the UK PMC. For information about the latter see http://ukpmc.ac.uk/. For the general site of the British Library see www.bl.uk
Contact Person – Ginevra House, 020 7412 3225.
Programme:
3-00 pm Brief Tour of Library
3-30 pm to 3-45 The British Library view on scholarly communication presented by David Brown
3-45 pm to 4-15 STM e-journals and UK Pub Med Central presented by Lee-Ann Coleman
4-15 pm to 4-30 pm British Library and Microsoft mass digitization project presented by Ben White
4-30 pm to 5-00 pm talk by Aly Conteh and tour of the Microsoft Digitization studio

Evening
17.30 Welcome reception at UCL in the Haldane room (North Cloisters)

Tuesday 17 June

Morning: Teaching
09.00 HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for afternoon
0930 - 10.30 Discussion with Anthony Watkinson giving a publisher's view on Open Access - for preparation see http://www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/papers/2007Watkinson.pdf
10.30 - 11.00 refreshments
11.00 - 12.30 Discussion of the role of digital repositories with special reference to the ingestion of research outputs, including a presentation by Sally Rumsey, Project Manager, Institutional Repository Systems and Electronic Resources Service, Oxford University Library Services. For some information about what Sally is doing see http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/_data/assets/pdf.file/0011/18587/July-Aug_2007.pdf

Afternoon Visit
14.00 leave from HM4 for an Elsevier office in central London
Contact Person to be confirmed
The programme is being organised by Niels Weertman, Director of Scopus and Scirus
Details to be confirmed but the afternoon will not end later than 17.00

Evening
Free

Wednesday 18 June

Morning: Teaching
09.00 HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for afternoon
09.30 to 10.30 Presentation on Open Access Journals with particular reference to the publications of PLOS by Dr. Mark Patterson, Director of Publishing, Public Library of Science. For further information see http://www.plos.org
10.30 - 11.00 refreshments
11.00 - 12.30 Presentation of the RIOJA project (also see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/ - an overlay journal experiment) by the projectofficer and researcher, Panayiota Polydoratou of UCL Library Services, followed by a discussion of libraries as publishers.

Afternoon Visit
14.00 leave from HM4 for the offices of JISC Collections.
14.30 - 16.30 presentations at their offices at their offices at Brettenham House, 5 Lancaster Place on Waterloo Bridge opposite Somerset House. For further information see http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/, www.jiscebooksproject.org/, and http://www.nesli2.ac.uk/index.htm
The contact person is Elinor House, 020 3006 6000
The detailed programme is:
Caren Milloy - E-books project – National Observatory
Liam Earney - Collection activity
Lorraine Estelle - Datacentre collaboration
Brian Mitchell: Communication with the community
Anna Vernon- JISC working groups

Evening
Free

Thursday 19 June

Morning: Teaching
09.00 - 09.30 HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for the afternoon and Friday.
09.30 - 10.30 Presentation by Steve Hall, formerly global marketing director of Blackwell Publishing and CEO of Proquest UK, on Marketing e-Publications, on publishing, libraries and the licensing of e-journals and e-books
10.30 - 11.00 refreshments
11.00 - 12.30 Presentation by Anthony Watkinson on what the larger publishers offer to academic associations self-publishing their own journals. For preparation see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/guidelines.pdf

Afternoon Visit
13.30 leave HM4 for Crinan Street near Kings Cross, the offices of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) known for their innovation.
14.00 - 16.00 Presentations at Nature including descriptions of their web 2.O experiments – see http://network.nature.com/. For the activities of the wider group see http://www.nature.com/index.html
Contact person is Grace Baynes, 020 7014 4063
Detailed programme:
2-00 pm Welcome and introductions (10 mins)
2-10 pm Brief introduction to Nature Publishing Group (5 mins)
2-15 pm NPG’s communication with librarians (20 mins max)
2-35 pm STM publishing: one publisher’s perspective, including web 2.0 initiatives (20 mins)
3-00 pm Question & Answer session (30 mins)
3-30 pm Tour of the NPG offices (up to 30 mins)
4-00 pm Depart NPG

Evening
Free

Friday 20 June

DAY IN OXFORD

Instructions on getting to Oxford by coach ("the Oxford Tube", from Victoria Coach Station) will be distributed in advance. Oxford is about 65 miles from London and the journey in morning traffic should take approximately two hours.

Morning and aarly afternoon at Oxford University Press
09.15 Arrive main bus station Gloucester Green and walk to Oxford University Pressmain entrance on Great Clarendon Street off Walton Street
09-30 to 3-00 pm Presentations at OUP
Contact person is Julian Hitchin, 01865 556767 (main number)
Programme will include:
09-30 to 10-30 Oxford Scholarship Online and other OUP e-book projects (Claire Dowbekin)
10-30 refreshment break
11-00 – 12-00 Tour of the OUP Museum and explanation about the Press
12-00 – 1-00 pm Oxford Journals Open Access Experiments (Fiona Bennett)
1-00 pm to 2-00 pm Lunch at OUP
2-00 pm to 3-00 pm Google and the Digitisation of Bodleian Library out-of-copyright holdings by Michael Popham of the Bodleian Library

Walk through historic Oxford to the Bodleian Library

Afternoon at the Bodleian Library
3-30 a very brief visit to the historic part of the library ending not later than 4-00
The Bodleian is just across the road from Blackwell’s Bookshop, said to be the largest academic book shop in the world and surrounded by historic building and some historic “pubs” – maps to come.

Return to London
In own time via Oxford Tube (open return tickets)

Evening
Free


WEEK 2

Monday 23 June

Morning: Teaching
09.00 HM4 Review of Programme so far and plans for the afternoon and Tuesday
09.30 - 10.30 Chris Beckett of Atypon will give a presentation on online hosting of e-journals and e-books for publishers by a partner used by many major publishers
10.30 - 11.00 refreshments
11.00 - 12.30 Presentation by Roger Schonfeld, the manager of research for the Ithaka organization, which aims to encourage the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide. For information about Ithaka see http://www.ithaka.org/about-ithaka. Dr. Schonfeld will speak about format transition from a holistic perspective, incorporating faculty needs along with some library management and publisher economics. He will focus on the humanities and social sciences and the presentation will be followed by a general discussion of the special needs of these disciplines in the digital environment

Afternoon Visit
13.30 pm leave HM4 for the Scientific Division of Thomson Reuters at 77 Hatton Garden.
14.00 to 16.30. Presentations from Thomson staff including an explanation of how Derwent works. For this see http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific1/DWPI and other product sites. For Thomson see http://www.thomsonreuters.com/.
Contact Person is Simon Pratt, 020 7433 4176 or 07795 375 238
Detailed programme to come

Evening
Free

Tuesday 24 June

DAY IN CAMBRIDGE

07.30 Meet in Albany Street (100m up from Gt Portland St station, on the left) to board minibus to Cambridge

Morning at Proquest
09.45 Arrive at The Quorum, Barnwell Road Cambridge
10.00 - 12.15 Presentations by staff of Proquest: the main site for ProQuest is http://www.proquest.com/. The programme today will concentrate on the Chadwyck-Heley component of ProQuest – see http://www.proquest.co.uk/brand/chadwyck.shtml.
Contact person is Hugh Tomlinson and his phone number will be provided later
Detailed programme:
ProQuest is a world leader in collecting, organizing and publishing worldwide for faculty and students. In the presentations provided the concentration will be on digitization of collections for researchers and the ProQuest role as an aggregator for the products of other publishers.
Presentations provided by senior ProQuest staff members:
10am –ProQuest’s Digitisation programme – Dan Burnstone
11am –Break and Tour of the Office
11.30 – ProQuest and the changing aggregation business – Roger Tritton
12.15 pm to 12.30 pm Questions
12.30 Lunch at Proquest
1.15 pm – Leave for Cambridge historic centre

Early Afternoon
Minibus drop us off in the historic centre for sightseeing and shopping

Later Afternoon
15.00 Meet at the Chemical Laboratories Lensfield Road. These laboratories are about ten minutes on foot from the Centre – see map. Visit to the Molecular Informatics Group of Peter Murray-Rust, who is an authority on Open Data and Data Mining (see http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/wikis/wwmm/index.php/Main_Page).
Contact Person is Susan Begg, 01223 336432
The visit will include some interactive sessions in the laboratory. Professor Murray-Rust may send reading suggestions in advance.
It is expected that this visit will end at about 17.00 leaving time for a drink in a historic bar!

18.00 (approx) Board mini-bus at location to be decided for return to London

Wednesday 25 June

Morning: Teaching
09.00 - 0930 HM4 Review of Programme so far and an introduction to the upcoming conference
09.30 - 10.30 Presentation by Ruth Jones of Ingram Digital about e-book channels to market and opportunities for book type content. Ingram Digital is the biggest player among e-book intermediaries.
10.30 - 11.00 refreshments
11-00 to 12-30 Anthony Watkinson will review the course and try to draw out themes in general discussion


Afternoon Visit
14.00 leave HM4 for the Conference Room at 70 Whitehall (Cabinet Office)
Contact Person is Alan Pawsey, 020 7276 5200
14.30 to 16.30 Presentations by staff of the Office of Public Sector Information led by Alan Pawsey on e-Government. For information on OPSI see http://www.opsi.gov.uk/.
It is possible that Carol Tullo who is director of the Offfice of Public Sector Information, Controller and Queen’s Printer will make an appearance.

Evening
Free


Thursday 26 June and Friday 27 June

THE VIRTUAL SCHOLAR (conference)

For details of the programme for the conference see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing

Note that there will be a conference reception 17.30 to 19.30on the evening of the Thursday and there will be a farewell dinner on the evening of the Friday. Details of the dinner to be given later.